Yet another reason has surfaced to tar and feather Giusto: as he was closing jails due to lack of funds, he was also giving his top commanders free company cars, letting the public shouldered hundred of thousands of dollars for gas and car bills.

In Baghdad, two mentally disabled women were made into human bombs and let loose in a pet market, where they exploded, killing 73 people.

The presidential race isn’t just working its way into every corner of American life—the rest of the world is all in a dither too. In Germany, some are saying Obama is “the black JFK,” and (in a German accent), “He is young, charming and sexy!”

In a situation straight from Kill Bill, Russian model cum body guard to the rich, Anna Loginova, was killed in Moscow by a car thief.

-Jenny Furniss